Oh dear oh dear.

I fear we may never see any new Jaguars especially with the way EV sales and used values are going.
However I also fear that Starmer might just try to force change by taxing ICE vehicles off the road in a very dictatorial way.

It's all quite worrying if you care for Jaguar's future. I saw the spy shots as well - if it really is another >£100k massive EV saloon, who wants it? People want massive SUV's (because they are dickheads admittedly). Even more so they want smaller SUV's and crossover type things (reasons unknown since they handle like shite and have no more space inside than a normal hatch). A sort of electric E-Pace would seem logical. If they hadn't messed up their own naming conventions, they could even have called it.... E-Pace.

In an era of expensive credit, expensive electricity, and a cost of living crisis, who is buying >£100k EV cars. In volume? And what will the retained value on this be? 50% after 2 years if they are lucky? Say it's £120k and loses half of that in 2 years. Do the maths on the monthlies, adding in interest. And tax, And public charging that's no cheaper than petrol. How big is that market exactly?

Don't forget that, when we've all gone electric, the Government will be able to disable all cars at the flick of a central switch, or geofence them to prescribed areas. Sounds paranoid but remarkably handy if/when there's another pandemic or social unrest.

The latter seems an utterly believable direction of travel from Chairman Starmer.

Sadly the fact that the car that Jaguar plans to put to market is the ever popular and sought after luxury saloon, I fear your first point may not come to pass. They were ahead of the curve when the iPace came out and it feels like they've utterly squandered a great opportunity to develop a market leading product line.